Search for Truth
Faith and Reason
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energy which can be converted into electricity. This
runs along a wire in the form of a current, yet this
event is not observable even by a scientist. But
when such an event produces an effect, for instance,
it lights up a bulb or sets a motor in motion this
effect comes under a scientist’s observation.
Similarly, the waves from an X-ray machine, are not
observable by a scientist, but when they produce
the image of a human body on a plate, then it
becomes observable.
Now the question arose as to what stand a scientist
must take? Should he believe only in a tangible
effect or the intangible thing as well, which
produced that effect? Since the scientist was bound
to believe in the tangible effect, he had no choice but
to believe in its intangible cause.
Here the scientist felt that direct argument could be
applied to the tangible effect, but that it was not at
all possible to apply direct argument to the
intangible cause. The most important of all the
changes brought about by this new development in
the world of science was that, it was admitted in
scientific circles that inferential argument was as
